Imprimatur Re(du)x: Coronet

Nice to welcome back an old imprint name from many years ago. The Bookseller reports that Coronet is being resurrected, having been closed in 2004. Looks to have a good new future, and has a new logo that won't come as a big surprise (see above, pictured with the new editor, Mark Booth). It's still under the aegis of Hodder, but of course the Hodder of today, a division of Hodder Headline which is a division of Hachette Livre, is a very different creature from the strongly religious Hodder and Stoughton founded in 1868. Coronet was - as many British publishers had in the post-war period - a nice way of publishing mass market paperbacks without besmirching the fine imprint of the main publisher. It did publish some good books - Ian Fleming reprints, Fay Weldon and I found some of these covers you might enjoy from the 70's.

I expect we will see something a little better for Stephen Gately

Nick W-W

(Imprimatur Rex will be a regular feature of the blog, in the belief that imprints have a life above and beyond the owners at any given time... Re(du)x is a poor attempt at a Latin pun.)